President's Message

Hi Everyone. Welcome back to the new year. I think 2019 is going to be a great year for us.

To start with, we acquired a new place to show our art: the lovely Armenian Home in the Vineyards. We now have a place for our artists to have a one or two man-show each month, and also a place to hold our Fall Show. (We had a great turnout there and two artists sold art even before we finished hanging the show!)

We have received an anonymous donation of $1,000. Thank you for thinking of us Anonymous.

We will be starting our meeting this month with a great demo by Artist and popular Writer Vicki Thomas.

Congratulations to our Pick of the Year Artist, Mary Fotheringham. Speaking of Pick of the Month, don't forget to bring yours to the meeting!

Jackie would like your input as to who you would like to see demonstrate at our meetings. Please speak to her about this.

·At the meeting, we will be looking for: members to sign up to be our monthly featured artist

Are you ready to paint small this summer? Our miniature works show has gone back to its roots this summer. For the first time in many years, we will be back in the display cases at the Clovis Library. Since the Library doesn't have space for receiving, we will receive and Judge at the Veteran's Memorial District, and then set up the display that afternoon at the Library.

The miniature works show is an opportunity for artists who paint miniatures to show off their skills and for those of us wh...

The year has hardly begun and I'm very excited about the opportunities we have available to us. We have the Old West Show back in the Veteran's Room, thanks to Alice's wonderful negotiation skills, (Thank you Alice!). We hope to have our Small Works Show in either the Clovis or the Sunnyside Library (Dave Boothby is still working on this) so no promises as yet. Sunnyside library is where we have a year-round exhibit, except for the month and a half when SWA borrows the space for their spring ...

Just a
few reminders
1) We will be judging the children's art show for the Veteran's today at 1PM.
Any and all artists welcome. Call me at 559-960-2428 if you have any Questions.

2) Tonight
is our final meeting for 2017
We will be awarding Pick of the Year tonight, so if you won a first place in
Pick of the Month in 2017, please bring your art tonight
3) we will be holding our year end fundraising raffle tonight, so bring money
to buy tickets. We will be raffling off new and...Continue reading...

Despite some major issues, the Old West Show was received,
judged and hung. It looked wonderful. The show location in the lobby of the
Veteran's Building certainly drew plenty of positive attention and walk though
traffic.

Unfortunately there were communication issues with the
administration and next year's show will remain in the location only if those
communication issues can be worked out.

We could only have pulled off the show with the help our
dedicated members so it ...

I hope all of you are ready to hit the ground running in 2017. Change is
always difficult, but often when a door closes, another opens. A few updates:
Our Board Meetings are now the 1st Wednesday of each month at the
Dennys on Willow and Shaw in Clovis. We reserved the meeting room for 4:30—7:30
PM, and yes we do usually eat dinner during the meeting although it isn’t
mandatory to do so.

We are now
officially a non-profit 501(c) organization, so any donations we receive from
our shows ar...

As you know, there will be some
changes to our schedule this year in response to the Veteran District’s new
rules. Our board meetings are going to be moved to the 1st Wednesday
of the month, beginning in September 7th. We will also be changing
the location of the board meetings to the Dennys on Shaw and Willow avenues.
(710 W Shaw, Clovis, CA 93612). We have reservations there for at least 12
people from 4:30 – 7:30 PM for the months of September and October. Yes, we are
going to eat du...

Is it really June already? The miniature show is coming up
faster than you think so I hope all of you have started your painting for this
year. This year there have been quite a few changes. The Fresno Art Hub will be
hosting the show this year. Many thanks to our gracious hostess Diane Breuer.
The awards will be given out during Art Hop Thursday on July 7th so
please come and support all our fine artists. I look forward to seeing you there.